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In this chapter we discuss the physiological characteristics of the brainstem auditory nuclei with regard to three major challenges bats face: 1) The determination of target characteristics from the temporal and spectral properties of echoes; 2) the evaluation of target range coded by the temporal interval between an emitted pulse and echo; and 3) the localization of a sound in space as computed from interaural intensity disparities.
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Pollak, G.D., Casseday, J.H. (1989). Physiological Properties of Auditory Neurons. In: The Neural Basis of Echolocation in Bats. Zoophysiology, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83662-6_4
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